AFJ in the News

Nine public interest groups are prodding the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s arbitration task force, which met in Washington on Thursday, to ensure that the self-regulator improves the transparency of mandatory arbitration for investors by releasing a wide range of data not now publicly available.

This is pretty ridiculous even for a Republican. The new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has been taking stock cooking the books of the committee’s accomplishments, and has just decided to commandeer some of them.